Capstone Turbine
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A Capstone microturbine. This machine has a single-stage radial compressor and turbine, a recuperator, and patented foil bearings.
Capstone Turbine Corporation, incorporated in 1988, is a California based gas turbine manufacturer that specializes in microturbine power and heat cogeneration systems. Capstone has sold and shipped more than 3,000 of these one-moving-part systems worldwide. It is the only microturbine manufacturer of oil-free gas microturbines, made possible with the use of foil bearings.
The company sells products for electrical power generation, cogeneration, biogas-fueled renewable energy, and hybrid vehicle power.
[edit] See also
- Distributed power
- Brayton cycle
- FlexEnergy
- Low Btu Gas